hippie_hunter
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You are aware that socialism is an economic system that involves the state-planning and ownership of industry. The EU is like.....the complete opposite of that. What you're saying is as baseless as American conservatives calling Obama a socialist. If the EU were socialist, Karl Marx would be spinning in his grave.Yes, that is the essential difference between the EEC and the EU, aside from the latter being granted potentially autocratic supremacy over national parliaments.
The EU is essentially taking the EEC to the next natural level, combining already existing cooperation into a single coherent organization. The leaders with power within the EU are leaders who gained power democratically in their home states, it's not like Angela Merkel just assumed power out of nowhere. Francois Hollande didn't just assume power out of nowhere. They were democratically elected.
There's a EU Parliament, which isn't as powerful as it should be, but still has an important role in the legislative matters of the EU. And EU Commissioners are appointed by the member-states, all of which are democracies. The EU is not some imaginary autocratic organization that you make it out to be. The EU won't allow autocratic states like Belarus join, they have to be democratic states.
And take a look at what they've been forcing Greece to implement reforms in order to liberalize their labor markets, the selling of state-owned assets to private owners, and try to make them more competitive on the free market. The EU has always been about liberal economics and removal of trade barriers from the freedom of movement of capital, goods, and people, the removal of tariffs, the creation of the common market, the harmonization of regulations, etc. But I guess the free market is dirty ****ing socialism apparently.